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Staffing at the facilities has grown by 213 employees since February 2023, the governor reported.

Voters will be asked to decide whether public money should go to support private education. Opponents say it would undermine public schools by shifting money from them, while backers maintain that state aid would give parents more control over their kids’ education.

Kentucky Open Government Coalition co-director Amye Bensenhaver called the Kentucky Supreme Court’s ruling a “monumentally important opinion.”

Gov. Andy Beshear also said Kentucky must have a cultural shift in how it views domestic and intimate partner violence. 

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear joined health care professionals and activists Wednesday as he signed an executive order he said would restrict conversion therapy in Kentucky.

Republicans plan to file a bill nixing a state requirement that campuses submit diversity plans.

Competing political issue committees have raised millions of dollars that will be spent on ads supporting and opposing a ballot referendum asking whether Kentucky should amend its constitution to allow public funds to go to private and charter schools.

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is telling prosecutors that hundreds of new “risk free” games resembling casino slots are illegal under state law.

Glover is the retired president and CEO of Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative.

Eston Glover, former president and CEO of Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative and chair of the Pennyrile Regional Energy Agency, is among those who have been appointed to the committee.

The move follows a months-long back and forth on access between Ball and the administration.